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Forewords; Richard Bate, Director, ICC, UK; Adriaan Vickery FIEx,National Chairman, The Institute of Export, UK; Preface; Maria LivanosCattaui, Secretary General, ICC; Introduction; Jonathan Reuvid; Part One: TheOrigins and Nature of the World Trade Organization; 1.1 The Development ofMultilateral Trade Agreements; 1.2 Before, During and After the UruguayRound; 1.3 The Doha Agenda and Beyond; 1.4 Legal Elements of the WTO; 1.5Forging the Tolls of Trade -- Core Tasks of the International Chamber ofCommerce; 1.6 The Patterns and Trends in World Trade; Part Two: RegulatoryIssues and Disputes in International Trade; 2.1 Customs Duties and Tax; 2.2Anti-dumping Regulations and Practices (with particular reference to EU Law);2.3 Challenging Anti-dumping Duties before the EC Courts; 2.4 Mechanisms forRegulating Environmental Barriers to Trade within the WTO; 2.5 Unilateral andMultilateral Political Embargoes and their Impact; 2.6 Resolving TradeDisputes in the WTO; 2.7 Private Party Enforcement of WTO Law in the EC LegalContext; 2.8 Dispute Resolution in International Trade; Part Three: TheManagement of Foreign Currencies in International Trade; Introduction; 3.1Foreign Exchange and the Euro-currency Markets; 3.2 Exchange Rates and theirCalculation; 3.3 The Treasury Management Function; 3.4 Export and ImportIssues; Part Four: International Trade Finance and Documentation; 4.1 Methodsof Settlement; 4.2 Documentary Credits; 4.3 Standby Letters of Credit; 4.4Finance for Trade; 4.5 Identifying Risks and Risk Management; 4.6 TradeFinance and Export Credit Schemes; 4.7 Avoiding Problems with DocumentaryCredits: Some Legal Precedents; Part Five: International Trade DevelopmentIssues; 5.1 Researching International Markets; 5.2 Appointing Export Agentsand Distributors; 5.3 International Freight Management and Logistics; 5.4Inspection and Certification of Goods; 5.5 Personal Liability for OffencesRelating to Import and Export Controls; 5.6 E-commerce in World Trade; PartSix: Appendices; I Membership of Regional Trading Groups; II Least-developedCountries (LDCs); III International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) NationalCommittees and Groups; IV Banking Groups with Trade Finance Interest byRegion; V Examples of Letters of Credit; VI Incoterms; VII ICC Publications;VIII Institute of Export Recommended Reading Lists for the Diploma andAdvanced Certificate in International Trade; IX Kogan Page InternationalBusiness Publications; X Contributors' Contact Details